 Alright, the first question is from Dylan Pied 95, are psalms a useful tool or a gimmick? Did you pick this out? Yeah. I know I sent you a... It was Dylan Pied. Well, I sent him over a, first of all, define or tell me the difference between a psalm and a peptide. What's the difference? So peptides are compounds that can cause other actions in the body or can be turned into other things in the body. This is supposedly a psalm is a drug. So psalm stands for selective androgen receptor modulator. So what that means is that these compounds are designed to attach to the androgen receptors in the body and to cause some actions. Now what are the androgen receptors in your body responsible for? Well, they're responsible for the masculinization of your body. So facial hair, deepening of your voice, oily skin, you know, that kind of stuff. But they're also responsible for muscle building to some respect. So testosterone attaches to the androgen receptor. All steroids attach to the androgen receptor. So psalms were invented to attach to the androgen receptor, but to cause those receptors to exert the muscle building effects without exerting the masculinizing effects because that's like the magic formula in pharmaceuticals is can we make a drug that gives you all the wonderful benefits of testosterone minus the masculinizing effects? That way women can use them. That way we can give them to people who need to strengthen their bones and their muscles because those masculinizing effects, as much as bodybuilders and, you know, roid heads like them because, you know, you start to feel aggressive and all that stuff. When you're giving this to the average person, they don't necessarily want to feel that, especially women, or if you have to give them to kids or whatever. So that's the goal behind these drugs. They're totally new. These drugs have one or two, you know, they're not, none of them are FDA approved. The one that's been most tested, I'm not quite sure what phase of trial it's in, but it still hasn't been approved. Many of them have been dropped by the FDA because of negative effects. And here's what the anecdotes are saying. So I've been really deep in SARMs for a long time. I have no interest in using them because these are research chemicals. They're not FDA approved. A lot of people haven't used them yet for us to really know what they're doing. Now, does the peptide, I know this is a SARMs question, but I'm personally curious because I get a lot of questions around the peptides. And even though you just define them, they still sound very similar to me. They are research chemicals. Yeah, research chemical. They both are supposed to have an effect that hopefully produces more testosterone or growth hormone or whatever. So even though one sounds like it's specific to Anderson receptors, I feel like that they're both kind of similar, no? Yeah. So like the peptides, like for example, some peptides you'll use. Supposedly what they'll do is they'll have your body release way more growth hormone or insulin like growth factor, IGF-1, which are both anabolic hormones and all that stuff. But again, the problem is first off, how are they legal? You think to yourself, these things are not FDA approved. How the hell are people getting their hands on them? There's a gray area in regulation when it comes to these compounds. You can legally sell them as research chemicals. What you can't do is sell them for human consumption. So the way they're getting around it is you go online and you're buying a research chemical and it'll say clearly not for human consumption, although that's what people are doing. But people are literally experimenting on themselves with these products. That's what you're doing. Yeah. How do they go around that? Like, I mean, they're pretending that they're running some kind of like lab somewhere or is this just like whatever? I mean, it's interesting to me that because we've been anti-SARMs for since the beginning, but where else are you going to get something like this where we can go test? Like, so let's just say somebody buys the latest and greatest SARM and we've now got these forums where all these people are talking and sharing what they're feeling, what they're noticing. I mean, maybe one of the best ways to test this with that big of masses coming together. And I think the ones that get popular are the ones that have the most amount of people that have used them and said positive things in comparison to negative things. Is that how they get to where everyone starts talking about them? So the most popular ones are popular because they're the ones that people say give you the most gains. People literally don't give a shit about side effects. They don't. Think about steroids. I can't see color anymore, but it's cool. Yeah. Think about any drug. You know what I mean? OK, first off, think of the population that's attracted to SARMs. It's not general. General populations give a shit. Most people don't know what it is. The only people who are interested in it are either biohackers or like people who want to find a steroid but don't want to go to the black market. Oh, I can buy this online type of deal. They're not in a mental state to give a shit about side effects. In fact, if they gain muscle, they are really happy and they really don't care. Yeah, my case was always that if I'm going to take that, I may as well just take testosterone. That's how I felt. Testosterone's way more effective. Yeah. And we know what it does. Right. So what I don't understand is doing that instead of. They definitely aren't proven to be safer. So why would people go there? It's the legal side of it, I'm sure. Yeah, come on. People still think like that. It is crazy. People think that, first of all, you can order steroids online probably just as easily as you can order Psalms. Secondly, I don't know. I've never met a single person that's had their door busted down for having their personal use of steroids taken. It doesn't happen unless you're trying to distribute and make a business out of it. No one's fucking with you for a 10-CC vial of fucking. You see it with the CrossFit sports, all those people bringing them down for using these Psalms because they must have thought they're not testing for them because they're so new. They think if they use a Psalm, they're not testing for it so I can use this. Now anecdotally, when you read the message boards and you talk to people, and I talk to people who I believe to be reputable, the effects from a Psalm are they're not like steroids. It's not even close. And Psalms also promise or one of the targets, I think target actions of a Psalm is also to not affect your natural hormone levels. So the problem with taking testosterone is if you take testosterone, your body stops making testosterone. So they're trying to create these drugs that have less side effects, give you the muscle building effects, but also they don't shut down testosterone. The problem is Psalms do shut down testosterone, at least at the doses that people are using. Because the studies, the doses that they're using in the studies are far lower than these kamikaze doses that people online are using. We just don't know what they do. Here's the other thing, people are buying them because they're afraid of the black market and they're afraid that, oh my god, I don't know what's in this black market, vial of testosterone. I hate to break this to you. You don't know what's in that bottle of Psalms either. None of these are regulated. They're not a big enough market for people to, nobody knows how to test them properly. And the very few independent lab tests that I have seen have come out all over the place where dosages are off, excuse me, where there's chemicals that they can't identify that are in them. I've read scary stories of people getting their eyesight permanently affected. There was one psalm that caused people to have like an orange tint or damage to night vision. Like- That's crazy. No, I don't think, I mean, look, you wanna experiment on your body, it's your body, but keep in mind you are, this is a very high risk kind of game that you're playing. We don't know what they do. None of them have been approved. And the place you're getting them from who knows what they're putting in your bottle. And on top of that, a lot of people are even inject, like peptides tend to be injected, psalms at least are oral, but wow, you really need to be careful when you inject a random something into your body. I mean, it just takes the wrong thing to cause a bad reaction.